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Definition: Floodlight |
FloodlightNoun1. Light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography. Verb1. Illuminate with floodlights. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "floodlight" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1939. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Electrical Engineering | A projector designed for floodlighting, usually capable of being pointed in any direction and of weatherproof construction. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: FloodlightSynonyms: flood (n), flood lamp (n), photoflood (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Floodlight |
| Specialty definitions using "floodlight": AIRPORT ELECTRICIAN. (references) |
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Consumer Goods |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | A floodlight shone down into their faces |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Floodlight" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Floodlight" is used about 35 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 35 | 58,339 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "floodlight": floodlight projector. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
floodlight | 57 |
solar floodlight | 15 |
floodlight motion sensor | 6 |
floodlight camera | 3 |
outdoor floodlight | 3 |
floodlight portable | 2 |
floodlight motion sensor solar | 2 |
floodlight led | 2 |
car floodlight rr | 2 |
fixture floodlight halide metal | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "floodlight"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tufë drite, prozhektor (arc light, projector, searchlight), ndriçoj me prozhektor. (various references) | |
Arabic | مصباح (bulb, glow lamp, lamp), ضوء غامر, إنارة (lighting), إضاءة بالمصباح الكشاف, إضاءة (illumination, light, lightening, lighting, lightness), أنار بالضوء الغامر. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | светлина от прожектор (spotlight), осветявам с прожектор, прожектор (searchlight, spotlight). (various references) | |
Chinese | 泛光灯. (various references) | |
Czech | svìtlomet (headlight, searchlight, spotlight). (various references) | |
Danish | flomlysprojektør, bredstraalende projektoer. (various references) | |
Dutch | slaglicht, breedstraalarmatuur. (various references) | |
Finnish | ympäristövalonheitin, valonheitin (searchlight), julkisivuvalonheitin. (various references) | |
French | projecteur. (various references) | |
German | scheinwerfer (headlight, headlights, projector, reflector, reverberator), Flutlicht (flood light). (various references) | |
Greek | προβολέασ (projector, searchlight), προβολέας δέσμης, διάχυτο φωσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | להציף באור. (various references) | |
Hungarian | reflektorfény (limelight, spotlight), díszkivilágítás. (various references) | |
Italian | faro (lighthouse, headlight, beacon). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 投光照明器 (floodlight projector), 投光器 (floodlight projector). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | とうこうしょうめいき (floodlight projector), とうこうき (floodlight projector). (various references) | |
Korean | 투광램프. (various references) | |
Manx | thooill-hoilshaghey (floodlighting), thooill hollys. (various references) | |
Norwegian | flomlys. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oodlightflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | refletor (baffler, headlight, reflector, reverberator, tent pole), projector para iluminação, iluminar com holofotes, holofote (beam, projector, searchlight, spotlight, tent pole). (various references) | |
Russian | прожектор (searchlight, spotlight). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | reflektor (olivet, reflector, searchlight, spotlight), osvetliti reflektorom. (various references) | |
Spanish | foco (focal point, focus), reflector (reflector, searchlight), proyector para iluminación. (various references) | |
Swedish | fasadbelysning (flood-lighting). (various references) | |
Turkish | projektör ile aydınlatmak, projektör ışığı, projektör (floodlight projector, headlight, klieg, projector, reflector, reverberator, searchlight). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | прожектор (projector, searchlight, spotlight). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "floodlight": floodlighted, floodlighting, floodlights. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "floodlight" (pronounced flu"dlī't) |
| 4 | -d l ī' t | headlight. |
| 3 | -l ī' t | acolyte, backlight, candlelight, cryolite, impolite, daylight, flashlight, highlight, inflight, lazulite, limelight, moonlight, niccolite, overflight, satellite, searchlight, skylight, socialite, spotlight, starlight, stoplight, sunlight, twilight. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-f-g-h-i-l-l-o-o-t" | |
-2 letters: floodlit, foothill. | |
-4 letters: dhooti, diglot, flight, hotdog, oolith, tholoi. | |
-5 letters: dhoti, dight, fight, fillo, filth, flood, folio, hillo, hollo, igloo, light, litho, logoi, ootid, thill, thiol. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-f-g-h-i-l-l-o-o-t" | |
+1 letter: floodlights. | |
+2 letters: floodlighted. | |
+3 letters: floodlighting. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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